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Jun 9, 2011 Local News
Fukuoka’s Four Private Sector Broadcasters Boost Revenue and Earnings
The five private sector broadcasting companies in Fukuoka City released their financial results, which show that four of the five companies posted increased revenue and earnings. T...
Jun 9, 2011 Local News
Octopus Fishing Limited in Kammon Strait
Fishery bodies in the Buzen and Chikuzen districts of Fukuoka Prefecture have prohibited the fishing of octopus less than 400 grams in a 20-kilometer stretch along the Kitakyushu c...
Jun 2, 2011 Local News
Ringer Hut Training Part-Time Foreign Workers
Fukuoka City-based Nagasaki champon restaurant chain Ringer Hut has begun training part-time foreign workers, primarily those at Fukuoka Prefecture shops, at its headquarters. Ther...
Jun 2, 2011 Local News
Black Tiger Shrimp in Miyazaki
The black tiger shrimp, a favorite of epicures, is found mostly in Southeast Asia, but a team of researchers at the University of Miyazaki’s Faculty of Agriculture have discovered ...
Jun 2, 2011 Local News
Tourism Offensive to be Conducted Overseas
To offset the sharp downturn in foreign tourism caused by the Tohoku earthquake and the nuclear accident at Fukushima, the Kyushu Transport Bureau and the Kyushu Tourism Promotion ...
Jun 2, 2011 Local News
Zenrosai Concentrates Western Japan Call Center Operations in Fukuoka City
Zenrosai, the National Federation of Workers and Consumers Insurance Cooperatives, has established a call center in Fukuoka City to concentrate those operations for the west Japan ...
Jun 2, 2011 Local News
Eight Fukuoka-Kumamoto Express Round-Trip Bus Runs Added
The Nishi-Nippon Railway Co. (Nishitetsu) of Fukuoka City and Kyushu Sanko Bus of Kumamoto City added eight new round-trips bus trips between the two cities on June 1 to the runs t...
Jun 2, 2011 Local News
Foreigner Entry in Kyushu Down by Half in March
The Immigration Bureau released statistics on the number of foreigners entering and leaving Kyushu for the month of March. The statistics for entry showed a 48.9% drop from the yea...
Jun 2, 2011 Local News
Fukuoka Children’s Hospital to be Built on Artificial Island
Fukuoka City Mayor Soichiro Takashima announced that the municipal children’s hospital will be moved to Island City, the artificial island in Higashi Ward, in accordance with initi...
Jun 2, 2011 Local News
Nagasaki U. Team to Purify Bay
A research team from Nagasaki University will place a hose on the bottom of Omura Bay in Nagasaki Prefecture to pump in air and ameliorate the bay’s severe oxygen deficiency, resto...